A SERIES OF ORIGINAL MUSIC CONCERTS PRESENTED IN THE UNITARIAN CHURCH IN CHARLESTON.

Sarah Williams

Soprano, in a voice recital of opera arias, art songs, and musical theater songs.

Date: Monday, February 8, 2009

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Admission: $10 at the door

Proceeds go to the James Simmons Elementary School for their Music Program

For further information, please contact: Lin Raymond, Music Director.

E-mail: musicuuc@bellsouth.net

Phone: office (843) 723 4614 

Sarah Williams is a soprano originally from Dallas, TX. She was recently a soloist in The Messiah with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, for the Duruflè Requiem with the Taylor Festival Choir, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the Hilton Head Island Symphony Orchestra and in a Rodgers and Hammerstein Concert with Orchestra Kentucky and the Murfreesboro Symphony Orchestra. Other recent roles include Maria in West Side story with the Bowling Green Chamber Symphony, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra for the Piccolo Spoleto Festival and Cherubino in the Marriage of Figaro with the Palmetto Opera. She sang Koukouli in L'Etoile and Stella in The Tales of Hoffmann in the Cincinnati Opera's 2006 Festival Season. Sarah has performed with the Cincinnati Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera North and Central City Opera. She has performed with the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, Charleston Symphony, Charleston Pops, Cincinnati Baroque, Michigan Pops and Musica Sacra. Notable roles include Hermia in a Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mrs. McLean in Susannah, Genevieve in Pelleas et Melisande, Dame Quickly in Verdi’s Falstaff and Ruth in the Pirates of Penzance. Sarah is a two-time winner of the South Carolina District Metropolitan Opera Competition in 2006 and 2007. She holds a bachelor's degree in music from The University of Michigan and a master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music

 The Unitarian Church supports an active and enthusiastic music program.

The Chancel Choir practices every Wednesday 7:00 to 8:30 pm, September to June, and rehearses at 10:00 am each Sunday in preparation for the 11:00 am Service.

We also have a a children's choir - the Canaries. This group meets for one or two after-church rehearsals, and then rehearses and sings the following Sunday. Their worship music has been met with great enthusiasm.

 A core of instrumentalists provide extra beauty and excitement at least once a month by playing in the Sunday services. These musicians play trumpets, violins, viola, cello, harp, guitars, piano, drums and flute and range in age from eleven to fifty-five plus!

Instrumental music, anthems and hymn choices represent a wide range of musical styles and texts, reflecting the nature of this denomination.

Children also participate in occasional services in the sanctuary. Our religious education program is filled with music every Sunday.

If you are a singer or an instrumentalist, please contact the music or RE director. Enhancing the services through music is a wonderfully satisfying endeavor.